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LETTER PRESS PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE.

No. 425,298. Patented Apr. 8, 1890.

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DAVID CARLAW," OF GLASGOlV, COUNTY OF LANARK, SCOTLAND.

LETTER-PRESS PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATIOX forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,298, dated April 8, 1890.

Application filed October 16, 1888. 8erinl No. 288,281. (No model.) Patented in England August 22, 1887, No. 11,428; in France July 18, 1888, No. 191,878, and in Canada December 6,1888,No.30,344.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that 1, DAVID OARLAW, residing in Glasgow, county of Lanark, Scotland, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, have invented Improvements in Letter-Press Printing and Numbering Machines, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in Great Britain, No. 11,428, dated August 22, 1887; in France, 1 0. 191,878, dated July 18, 1888, and in Canada, No. 30,344, dated December 6, 1888,) of which the following is a specification.

My said invention has reference to and comprises improvements in the construction or the general arrangement and combination of the parts or mechanical motions of a rotative or rotary letter-press printing and numbering machine for printing drapers check-hooks, railway and steamboat tickets or labels, and like printing and numbering work from thin or thick paper or 'millboard or other prepared fabric for the purpose in the web or roll, and in which the short leaves, tickets, or parts have frequently to be printed on both sides and numbered in series or sequentially, and then perforated or cutat the required divisions or widths and lengths, all to be delivered from the machines numbered in continuous sets of one to fifty, or one to one hundred, or other-series of numbers, according to the size of book or sets required to be put up together, and all printed and numbered by these improvements upon and formed out of a cona rotary letter-press printing and numbering machine for printing the leaves of drapers chock-books or tickets in sequence on a web of paper, and constructed in accordance with and illustrating one general arrangement of my improvements and mode of carrying same into practice. Figs. 2 and 3 are transverse sectional elevations as taken on the lines 1 1 and 2 2, respectively, of Fig. 1. Fig. 1 1s a transverse section of the printing cylinder or roller 13', carrying the numbering-disk mechanism D Z) I), also showing the upper part of the under platen-roller C, which it acts against. Fig. 5 is a corresponding longitudinal sectional elevation of one end of the roller 13,

showing one set of the n umbering-disk mechanism D Z) Z) in edge view and the cam Dsecured to the side frame 1) for actuating same. Fig. 6 is an end viewot this rollerB to show the cam D and its operating-lever D which actuate the numbering-disks b b; and Fig. 7 is an end view of the numbering mechanism, showing the first or unit numbering-disk b and the actuating-pawls c c and operating-levers c D all as detached from the cylinder B. Fig. 8 is a side and edge viewof the numbering-disk l) and its ratchet-wheel b as slightly modified from that shown in Figs. 4 to '7, to print numbers from 1 to 100. Fig. 9 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the delivery part of the machine shown in Fig. 1 to an enlarged scale, showing the cutting, punching, and paper-delivery rollers and bands and mechanism of the machine. Fig. 10 isatransverse sectional elevation showing the transverse cutting and punching rollers E F. and mechanism detached, and Fig. 11 is a corresponding end view to Fig. 10, while Fig. 12is a sectional end View, all these detail views Figs. 4: to 12 being shown to an enlarged scale from that shown in the general views, Figs. 1 to 3. Fig. 13 shows the sheets or leaves a of a drapers checkbook as printed, numbered, perforated, and delivered out of the web of paper a in this machine. Figs. 14 and 15 show end sectional views of a printing-roller l3 and numbering-disk mechanism D I) Z) Z2 and actuating-pawls c c and levers c and D" as suitable for the three-disk arrangement for printing from 1 to 100, Fig. 16 showing the disks in side or end view. In these figures the direction of motion of the printing, perforating, and other cylinders or rollers and numbering-w11ccls is indicated by an rows, and the direction of motion of the web of paper through the machine is indicated by darts.

Referring to the gemeral arrangement of the machine or mechanism shown in Figs. 1 to 3 and 9 to 13, the working mechanism is all carried on two main lower side frames A A, secured together by cross stays or bars A, and preferably having a supplementary frame A composed of two side frames secured together by cross-stays A, carrying the bushbearings and working-spindles of the printing and other rollers and mechanism, all bolted portably at A on the top of the lower frames A A at a proper height for the attendants to see the paper passing through the machine and to see the work as it is printed.

The web of paper a or other medium to be printed is mounted in a roll or roll form at a. on a spindle a, carried in bearing-brackets at a 0n the lower end frames A A. At the entering end of the machine a cord a weighted at a, is passed over a pulley on the spindle a to serve as a tension for the web of paper. Theweb a is fed and drawn in over guiderollers a and passed at a uniform rate over or between one, two, three, or more rotating hollow printing-cylinders or tubular rollers B B 13", each carried on spindles B, and shifting bush-bearings B in the frames A and pressure or platen or blanket rollers O 0 each carried on spindles C, working .in stationary bush-beari n gs G in the frames A A working over, under, or against the paper a and each printing-roller B, 3 or 3 Each platen-roller O G is covered with yielding or elastic tympan substance or blanket 0 secured on the surface byacross-barand groove at C, to give a good impression on the web of paper or fabric a from the type and numbering wheels 1) 1) b fitted within or on the said rotating hollow printing cylinders or rollers 13' to B The fabric a to be printed and numbered is passed straight and tangentially onto and bet-ween these printing and blanket rollers, driven through a chain of spu r-wheels G on their spindles C at the back of the machinefrom the spindle Oof the tympan-roller C by a belt from any prime moving shaft passed over afirst-motion fast and loose pulley cl on the spindle C, as seen more particularly in Figs. 1 and 2; or the belt-pulleys might be 011 a counter first-motion shaft below the shaft 0 and geared to it by spur-wheels.

The printing cylinders or rollers B B B are preferably made of a hollow tubular form with removable ends and journal-shafts B secured in them, as seen particularly in Fig. 2, which rotate in movable bush-bearings 13, preferably fitted with yielding springs and tightening-screws B in the side frames A as before mentioned, and they are all driven by their said gearing at one uniform circumferential speed and draw through the paper a between them over its guide-rollers a. The circumference of the printing-rollers 151,13 and B 011 which. the type and numbering mechanism are mounted, is. as near :as possible the length of each complete ticket, so as to print a ticket a at each revolution, as shown ticularly in Fig. 12.

in Fig. 13; but it might be made of a size to print a number of tickets, as two, three, or four, in the circumference or revolution.

The fabric a is printed and numerically numbered in this machine to suit for three widths or continuous strips or sheets of tickets in the width of the web of fabric to be printed. each set being printed with the same number in succession from 1 to 50 or 1 to 100, thus delivering three sets of sheets of these numbers in a regular successive m'anner, similar to the two sheets shown in Fig. 13, which shows the fiftieth sheet as printed; but the machine and cylinders might be made to take in a greater or less number of tickets or sheets in the width, as desired. After passing through between said platen and printing-rollers and numbering-rollers, the web is made to pass through between transverse perforating-cyl-- inders E E on spindle E, carried in bushbearings E in the side frames A A as seen particularly in Fig. 1 and in Figs. 9 to 11 on enlarged scales. These cylinders E E are preferably made in the form of disks or pulleys secured on their shafts E at some distance apart, their spindles E being actuated by a continuation of the train of spur-wheels G at the back of the machine. The under roller E is fitted with three long transverse serrated blades 6 6, working in radial grooves in their pulleys E each blade e being actuated by a radial moving bow-arm e at its.

and securely fitted to exactly meet and rei ceive the blades 6 e as they come round. Each blade e e is gripped between plates and IIO drawn into its recess by spiral springs 6 eX-.

cept when pushed out by their actuating-arms and cam-rollers e c, all as seen particularly in Figs. 9 to 12.

One of the-serrated bars e is made with.

fine teeth, sothat at each revolution it really cuts the paper through right across the whole web and set of sheets a of the paper at the ends 61*, (seen in Fig. 13,) and the other two serrated blades at a eachtime they come round perforate the paper and sheets, as indicated at e in Fig. 15.

, To give a certain amount of grip on eachside of the )a or on the wood bars 6 while it is being out by the blades, the slit metal block or blocks a are preferably fitted with spiral springs 6 to be slightly pressed out beyond the surface of their rollers B asseen par- The paper a, after being so perforated transversely, is conducted over a set of fingers f, lnounted-fiover and between the rollers E on a transverse osoillating spindle f and carried between two conducting sets of bands or tapes F Fi'passed liq over.rollers and spindles F, mounted on the delivery side of the rollers E E in brackets f secured to the side frames A A These bands F F are carried over conducting and driving rollers and spindles F F near the delivery end of the machine, as seen particularly in Figs. 3 and 9. Thepaper between these bands F F is carried, so as to be cut longitudinally, as indicated at g in Fig. 13, by four sets or pairs of cutting-disks g g mounted, respectively, on the spindles g g, carried in hearings in the side frames A A and actuated by a train of spur-wheels g on studs secured on the inside of the front frame A, as shown particularly in Fig. 3, and actuated by a spur-wheel g on the spindle E of the perforating-roller E as seen in Fig. 2 and as all dotted in, in Figs. 1 and 9. The spindle E of this roller E also, by a pair of small bevel-wheels h at its back end, actuates an angled shaft ll, (carried in bearing-brabkets H, secured to the back frame A which, by bevel-wheels 7L, actuates the spindle I of a set of rollers I and set of bands '2', passed over a driving-roller and spindle F above it. Both spindles I and F of these bands 1' are carried in bearings in the upper part of the frames A A The latter spindle by small spur-wheels j actuates the upper spindle and rollers F of the endless band F which carries the paper a, with the bands F, so as to deliver them onto the set of bands it, where they are wound in sets of four over each other, while a fifth is delivered simultaneously as itis fed forward, as will hereinafter be explained. V-shaped guide-fingers f conduct the paper over the roller F onto the bands t, and other two sets of endless bands 70 and Z, passed over pulleys k and Z, conduct the printed and cut sheets round the bands 2' and the downward delivery part of the bands F, passed over the delivery-rollers F and Z of the bands f and Z, the spindles of which are driven by a train of spur-wheels Z (shown dotted in, in Fig. 9) from a spur-wheel on the spindle I of the rollers I. These rollers Z and F and bands F and Z deliver the sheets between two endless bands is I and It, passed round rollers K and K, mounted on spindles in a delivery rocking frame K 0scillated by rods 7; and levers k by a fiveratchet-toothed cam 71:, secured on the same spindle H as a five-notched circular disk-cam is, mounted on the inside of the back frame A and actuated by a screw-wheel H from a screw 11', mounted on the angled shaft H outside the back frame A so as to rotate these cams k and k once for every five revolutions of the shaft H and perforating-rollers E E all as seen particularly in Figs. 3 and 9.

The cam 70*, for oscillating the delivery rocking frame K, may be mounted on a sepa-' rate spindle from the cam 76, and actuated to make only one revolution for five of the printirig-cylinders B B B and have only one tooth or rise in the circumference for actuating the lever k of the rocking dcliveryframe K.

A double-armed lever on is so mounted on a short spindle m that an anti-friction roller m" on its lower arms works on the periphery of the notched circular cam if, and through a rod m connected at its near end to the upper arm of the lever m and spindle m and at the other end to a rocking shaft, on which are mounted two sets of the paper-guiding fingers m 071', all so that as the roller m is passing over the plain part of the cam Z0 it causes five sets of the paper sheets as printed to be guided successively between the bands "Land is over each other onto the endless bands 2', and as each notch comes round in the cam 10 the roller m falls into it and shifts the guiding-fingers m outward, as dotted in, in Fig. 9, so as to deliver the whole five sheets laid over each other on the bands 5 as they comeround between the band F and the bands Z and deliver them in a set through the rollers F and .Z in between the bands 70 7c of the delivery oscillating frame K", which at the same instant is, by the raised part of the cam 70 caused to assume the dotted position shown in Figs. 1 and 9 by its moving cam 70 and levers k 70 to deliver each five sheets at once, all collated or arranged in sequence over each other onto the angled trough part L of the receiving sliding or moving table L, mounted delivered the next five sets are being delivered into a trough L at the opposite side of the table L, as shown in Fig. 1, when the table L can then be shifted in the reverse direction .to remove the sets in succession alternately and successively as they are delivered from opposite sides of the table L, thus enabling the sheets or tickets a to be removed in sets while they are being printed at a very high speed, as shown more particularly in Fig. 1.

The paper (L to be numbered and printed is passed,first, in this example and arrangement of the mechanism and numbering and printing rollers B B B with the back of the ,paper onto the first numbering-roller B, and

then round over and under the blanket-roller C, so as to get the first and second sets of successive numbers of 1 to 50 or 1 to 100 printed on the back of the paper, as shown dotted in at the lower part of Fig. 13, by sets of the numbering mechanism shown fitted within small cases or frames D, (shown in section within the roller B in Fig. 2 and in" detail in Figs. 4 and 5,) and so that the numbering-disks Z) 11 project through segmental recesses at D in the roller B, so as to print the paper passing through between it and the tympan-roller C, the roller B being formed and fitted substantially the same as B, only having the numbering mechanism placed or I divided so as to print the second set of num- IIO bers on the back in the proper place, as inclicated in Fig. 13, with a transverse perforated division e between these numbers, so as to the paper upward, with the third numbering i and letter-press printing-roller 13. over it, so as to print the third set of number-sand the letter-press and lines of moneyecolumns in the upper parts of the sheets on this front or upper side of the paper, as seen particularly in Figs. 9 and 13.

The numbering mechanism D b b, as also the segmental stereotype-plate B, is shown in the section of the roller B in Fig. 9.

The continuous printing of the letter-press iselfected byformingthe segmental stereotype or electrotyped plate B of the letter-press required and securing this on the outer surface of the tubular printing-cylinder 13 within a groovein the proper circumferentialposition to print this on each sheet or ticket or part of the sheet of each strip of tickets, as indicated in the-upper part of Fig. 13, so that as many plates would be secured on the circumference along the hollow cylinder as there are sets or strips of tickets to be printed by itthat is, three in this case, two of which are shown in Fig. 13..

The numbering disks or wheels I), b, and b for printing from lto 50 or 1 to 100 are all made of the same diameter and divided specially in equal divisions differentin each disk, having projecting printing-teeth at these divisions, with the numbers cut on their projecting printing-faces, or the absence of printing-teeth at these divisions where numbers are not to be printed. Each disk b, b, or b has an actuating ratchet-wheel b, b, or 19 secured on its one side, with a tooth corresponding to each division, and a spring-lever moving ratchet-pawl c 'c c" mounted at one side of the plate-frame D on the free end of a spring-actuatin g lever 0 fulcru med on a stud c at the other, so as to actuate each ratchetwheel and bring the particular tooth of each disk in one radial line at the part where they print the numbers on the fabric through a narrow recess D, formed from the inside of the tubular printing-cylinders B B 13 rounded'off inside, so as to allow these printing-wheels to turn inside clear of the tubular case of the cylinder and allow the numbers on the disks to project and print through the narrow recess at D in the printing-cylinder as it comes on the paper between it and the platen or pressure roller 0 and be inked after the disks have passed round from the paper and shifted to the new numbering posi tion just before they come up to the paper again to print the next number, by an arrangement of inking roller or rollers or equivalent inking-surface brought into action against the printing-surfaceof the numbers as they come Tround, all as will hereinafter be described. The ratchet-wheels b, b, or b have also jspring-lever ratchet-detents c mounted on the opposite side of the ratchet-wheels to their actuating-pawls c c 0, so as to hold and re- }tain the ratchet-wheels and their numberinglprinting disks in the said printing position to iwhich they are set by their moving pawls.

Referring to the detail views, .Figs. 4 to 7, the numbering of each strip of tickets in con- {tinuous sets of fifty is by these improvements effected by a novel construction and arrange- ;ment of two small numbering narrow disks Tor wheels I) b and their ratchet-wheels b b and respective actuating-pawls. c c and fititings mounted in a light double plate-frame .D, secured and fitted within each hollow print ing-cylinder B B B The first numbering disk 1) on the left-hand side of figures, for

printing the units on the right-hand side, as

shown in Fig. 13, is divided into ten printing divisions and projections or teeth, having engraved or cut printingnumbers 1 to 9 and a cipher on the tenth on the edge surface of the tooth, as indicated in Fig. 7, with its ratchet-wheel b behind it, with a corresponding number of teeth, while the second disk b, I which prints the tens on the left of theformer, (seen to the right in Fig. 5,) is divided into twelve divisions and with twelve. teeth on its ratchet-wheel b, five divisions in each half of the circumference of the disk, with a blank in the center between each five-divisions, and its actuating-pawlc turns this disk 12* one division for each revolution of the unit-disk b, as indicated in Fig. 4. The actuating-pawls c c of the respective ratchet-wheels b b and disks '1) b are both fulcrumed onone stud-pin in the outer end of a short springlever 0 oscillating on a center 0 out from the ratchet-wheels, and so that this lever 0 can be oscillated, so as to turn the ratchet-wheels, by a light spindle D passing across through wiper D on it to actuate each pawl-lever c and a lever D with an anti-friction roller or other equivalent on the outer end of this spindle D working in or over a cam D secured to the inside of the front frame A as seen particularly in Figs; 5 and 6, all so as to actuate the pawl-levers c at each. revolution of the numberingprinting-rollers B B. B just after the numberingdisks b b have printed the web of paper, the spring 0 bringing back the pawl-lever c after each action to its normal position againsta fixed stop ready for the next action of shifting the pawls and the numbering-disks, and theaction of the mechanism for giving the numbers 1 to 50 with these disks is as follows: Each revolution of anumbering printing-roller B, B or 13 through the cam D and first ratchet pawl c and ratchet-wheel 1), turns the first or unit disk I) one number at each action and revolution, and at each revolution of the unitdisk, as the cipher comes round and prints, the pawl 0 falls into. a deeper ratchet-tooth on its wheel I) of this disk I), which allows the pawl c of the sec ond disk 1) to fall into one tooth of its ratchet-wheel b, and so turns this wheel of the tens one division each revolution of the unitswheel as it brings the cipher into the printing position and does each revolution for five tiniesthat is, printing 10, 20, 30, 40, in which latter positionthat is, after the 50 is printed, as shown in Figs. 4 and 13, and the 1 is again to be brought into position for printing the first unit of the setthe second pawl 0'' takes into a raised or deep tooth on its ratchet-wheel b and brings the blank space into the printing position at the same time as the one on the unit-printing wheel was brought into printing position by its ratchet-wheel b, there being a raised tooth for every'blank space and half-revolution of the left-hand printing disk I) printing the tens, (shown 011 the right in Fig. 5,) and this blank space remains until a complete revolution of the unit-wheel takes place again, when the ratchet-pawl c of the unit-wheel 1) falls into its deep tooth and brings round the printing-disk b one tooth to print the tens successively, as before explained, from 1 up to 50, each time the cipher comes up on the units-wheel. Alight spring c on the second pawl 0 always brings it against a stop a on the pawl o of the first wheel Z), which keeps it out of gear with its ratchet-wheel 7), except when. the first pawl falls into the deep tooth before referred to at each time the ninth unitcomes round, so that it shifts only one division each revolution of the unit-wheel and is free to rise over its high ratchet-tooth each time the fifth division of its disk printing the tens comes round to bring the blank space into the printing position. In this way the mechanism goes on printing tickets in continuous series of 1 to 50. The stops on the pawls c o are shown in the form of lateral pins at c in Figs. i and 7 3 or otherwise, by

. a slight improvement, this two-numberingwheel arrangement may be made to print from 1 to 100 of the numbers in succession, as shown in side and edge view in Fig. 8, by forming the disk I), for printing the tens, with only one blank space in its twelve divisions, and numbers 1 to 5 in the succeeding five divisions, and a repeat of the five on the space opposite the blank division, with the figures 6 to 9 and a cipher on the following five divisions, aud with a lateral tooth having a figure 1 on it on the side ofthe tooth with this cipher, so as to print 10, and with the cipher on the units-wheel give the 100 when this tooth comes round, and having a high tooth on its ratchet-wheel b to bring the blank spaces into printing position and another exactly opposite when bringing the second five into printing position each time the ratchet-pawl c of the unit-wheel falls into its deep notch to turn the numbering-wheel b to bring its figure 1 into printing position. The arrows on these figures i to 8 show the direction of motion of the cylinders, and the printing-disks have their figures correspond ingly cut or ranged to turn in this direction, although it is not necessary that the numbering-disks should turn in the same direction as the cylinders, as the levers D D and cam D might be arranged to turn these in either direction by the motion of the rollers.

Referring to the three-disk-numbering arrangement (shown in Figs. 1a to 16 on Sheet 2) for printing the tickets continuously in sets of from 1 to 100, the first numbering unit-disk b and its ratchet-wheel b and pawl c are fitted and act all substantially the same as in the arrangement for printing in series from 1 to 50, or 1 to 100, described in reference to Figs. 4 to S on Sheet 1; but the second or tens-numbering disk I) is divided into eleven equal divisions, with ten projecting teeth, numbered 1 to 9, and a cipher in the tenth tooth, and with a blank space in the eleventh division, and oneraised or deep tooth on its ratchet-wheel b for bringing this .blank space into printing position after it has printed the cipher, as numbered and seen particularly in Fig. 14, and the third disk 12 for printing the hundred,'is divided into ten divisions, with alternate printing progecting teeth and blanks, with a figure 1 on. each projection, and fitted with a ratchet-wheel b and spring-pawl c, with a high or deep tooth on every alternate division of its ratchet-wheel b for bringing blank spaces into printing position. Thus the action is as follows: The second and the third wheels I) I) remain with their blank spaces in the printing position while the unit-wheel b is turned to bring its printing-teeth 1 to 9 into action at each revolution of the printing-cylinders B B B In this position the pawl cfalls into the deep tooth and causes the pawl c of the second wheel b to bring its figure 1 into printing position as the cipher on the unit disk 1) comes into printing position. lVhen the unit-wheel has made a complete revolution and brought the cipher again into position, it brings the number 2 of the second wheel K) into printing position, and so on each revolution of the unitwheel until the first and second wheels print 99,when by the next movement of the pawls c c both ratchet-wheels b" 12 and disks Z) Z) are turned to bring the two ciphers of the first and second disks of the units and tensinto printing position, and the pawl c of the second disk Z7, falling into a deep-cut tooth on its ratchet-wheel, allows the pawl c of the third ratchet-wheel b to take into one of its low teeth and turn it one division to bring one of its projecting teeth into position to print 1, making the 100, and thus prints the successively on the web of fabric each time the second disk 1) makes one revolution. The next movement of the unit ratchet-wheel I), which brings the 1 into printing position for the new series, causes the pawls c c of the ratchctnvheels b b of the second and third printing-disks I) I1 to take on to their raised projecting teeth and turn the printing-disks again and the ciphers on the first and second printing-disks b b were again brought i printing position with one of the projecting teeth of the third disk in line, so as to print the again successively and continuously on the web of paper, as described in reference to the first 100.- The arrows in Figs. let

to 16 also show the direction of motion of thecylinders and printing-disks corresponding to Figs. 4. to 8. Two, three, four, or more of these arrangements of numbering-disks I) Z) I) and theirnarrowplate-frames D are secured within the hollow cylinders 13 B B as seen particularly in Fig. 2, each within its recess D through the cylinder, in the positions and according to the number of strips of tickets to be printed in the width of the web passing between the printing-rollers B B B and the platen pressing-rollers G 0 The projecting surfaces of the numbering printing-disks Z) 1) b projecting through the slits D in the tubular printing-cylinders B B are inked just before they come round to print on the paper Ct over the entering end of the machine by an automatic inking-roller n, carried in journal-bearings over inkingtroughs n, turned intermittently by an arran geinent of ratchet-wheel and levers n and served from this roller intermittently by a pilot-roller 41', carried over the trough n on side levers and a rocking shaft n actuated by i cams 'n on a light horizontal shaft N, carried on brackets on the front side frame A of the machine and actuated by a screw-wheel and screw N on one of the horizontal spindles C of the blanket-cylinder C or other cylinder of the machine. This pilot-roller it" serves the ink to the rotating distributing-roller O, which in turn serves it onto the narrow inking-rollers 0 0 which work over the grooves in the cylinders B B at D, where the numbering-disks project to be inked. The distributing-roller O is actuated by a train of spur-wheels (dotted in at O) fron1 a wheel on the spindle B of the upper printing-cylinder B. An upper small distributing-roller O is moved laterally over the large distributingroller 0 by an arrangement of bell-cranks 0 and eccentric on the shaft N and rod 0 The segmental stereotyped plate B and numbering-disks 1) b mounted on the last printingcylinder are also inked by a similar arrangement of inking and pilot serving rollers n n, with trough n and large distributing-roller 0, over the back part of the machine, so far substantially the same and actuated by a front horizontal shaft N in an equivalent manner to that described for inking the numbering-disks b b of the front printing-rollers B B but a second large distributing-roller O is here employed, with two pairs of small lateccentric 0 on the shaft N.

era-l distributing-cylinders 0 working over these large distributing-rollers O 0 reciprocated by horizontal-beam levers 0 0, carrying their journal-bearings and vertical bellcrank lever 0 from the reciprocating rod of an The second large distributing-roller 0 serves the ink onto the small service-roller O, which directly inks the surface of the stereotype B and numbering-disks Z) Z) of the cylinder 13 all as seen particularly in Figs. 1, 2, and 9, the distributing-rollers O 0 being rotated by a train of spur-wheels (dotted in at 0) from a wheel on the spindle B of the cylinder 13 at the back of themachine.

A hand-lever P, convenient for the attendant, is fitted at the back delivery end of the machine, with a rod 19 leadingback to a bellcrank lever 19 for working a belt-fork sliding bar arrangement carried in brackets 19 near the belt-pulleys d (I, so as to shift the belt 01 from the slack to the tight pulley, or vice versa, instantaneously, according as the machine is delivering the sheets in a proper printed perforated and collated manner.

\Vhat I claim is 1. In a machine for printing and numbering sheets or tickets from webs of paper or other fabric, the combination, with rotary tubular cylinders having openings in their peripheries, of sets of disks with numbering teeth or projections mounted within the cylinders, and mechanism also Within the cylinders to rotate the disks, whereby sets of dif-- ferent numbers are successively brought to the openings in the cylinders, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a machine for printing and numbering sheets or tickets from webs of paper or other fabric, the combination, with a rotary cylinder, of numbering mechanism consisting of two or more numbering-disks with ratchetwheels and pawls within the said cylinder, the said disks having numbers to print from 1 to 50 or 1 to 100, consecutively and continuously, substantially as set forth.

3. In a machine for printing and numbering sheets or tickets from webs of paper or other fabric, the combination, with rotary tubular printing-cylinders having openings in their peripheries, of sets of numberingdisks mounted within the cylinders, ratchetwheels and pawls to actuate the disks, and a single spindle to actuate the pawls to bring the numbers consecutively before the openings in the cylinders, substantially as described. 1

4:. In a machine for printing and numbering sheets or tickets from webs of paper or other fabric, the combination of rotating tubular printing-cylinders having openings in their peripheries with sets of numberingdisks and means for actuating said disks, mounted within the cylinders, and segmental printingplates secured to the outer surfaces of the cylinders, whereby sheets or tickets are printed and numbered consecutively at the same time, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

5. In a machine for printing and numbering sheets or tickets from Webs of paper or.

other fabric, the combination of a rotating tubular printing-cylinder having openings in its periphery with two or more sets of numbering-disks and actuating mechanism for the disks mounted Within the cylinder, whereby two or more corresponding strips of paper for sheets or tickets may be numbered at the same time, substantially as described.

43. The combination, with a printing-machine, of a perforating device consisting of two rollers, transverse serrated blades movable 

